Class of 2013 Big Ten Recruiting Rankings: April 24th, 2013

Last year is in the books and 2013 recruiting is nearly finalized. Rivals, Scout and ESPN have all updated their recruiting rankings for the class of 2013, so we took the time to update our Class of 2013 Big Ten Recruiting Rankings.

Rank

School

# Commits

Rivals Avg.

Scout Avg.

ESPN Avg.

Rankings Avg.

Class Ave. Score

Class Cum. Score

1

Indiana

6

3.83

3.83

3.83

3.83

134.82

1580

2

Illinois

5

3.60

3.40

3.60

3.53

114.42

1275

3

Michigan

3

4.33

4.00

4.00

4.11

105.60

845

4

Purdue

3

4.00

3.67

3.33

3.67

92.64

785

5

Wisconsin

5

3.00

3.00

2.80

2.93

90.35

1105

6

Ohio State

2

4.00

4.00

4.00

4.00

81.52

540

7

Penn State

4

3.00

2.75

2.25

2.67

74.52

855

8

Nebraska

4

2.50

2.50

3.00

2.67

70.17

805

9

Michigan State

1

3.00

3.00

3.00

3.00

45.30

245

10

Iowa

1

3.00

3.00

3.00

3.00

42.53

230

10

Northwestern

1

3.00

3.00

3.00

3.00

42.53

230

12

Minnesota

1

3.00

3.00

2.00

2.67

37.48

215

After the jump we look team-by-team across the league as well as a breakdown of the top ten incoming recruits in the conference.

Top 10 Incoming Prospects

Noah Vonleh is the only consensus five star headed to the Big Ten but Michigan commitments round out two of the top three spots in the league. Here’s a breakdown including ranks at all three major scouting services and average rankings and composite score.

Nebraska

Nebraska adds JUCO Leslee Smith. Nebraska also picked up a preferred walk-on in Tim Wagner but we’ll only track the scholarship players.

Michigan State

Name

Position

State

Rivals

Scout

ESPN

Gavin Schilling

PF

IL

3

3

3

MSU finally gets a 2013 commit from Gavin Schilling.

Iowa

Name

Position

State

Rivals

Scout

ESPN

Peter Jok

SF

IA

3

3

3

No change for Iowa.

Northwestern

Name

Position

State

Rivals

Scout

ESPN

Nate Taphorn

SF

IL

3

3

3

Jaren Sina decommits after the firing of Bill Carmody.

Minnesota

Name

Position

State

Rivals

Scout

ESPN

Daquein McNeil

SG

MD

3

3

2

Alvin Ellis and Alex Foster decommitted after the coaching change. Richard Pitino gets his first commit in McNeil.

Ranking Explanations

Every player is given a normalized score on a 100 point scale for each of the three major scouting services. That score breaks down like this:

Player Score

100 =

5* Player

95 =

4* and top 50 player

90 =

4* player not in top 50

85 =

Top 150 player or top 30 at position

80 =

Top 40 at position

75 =

Top 50 at position or 3* player unranked at his position

70 =

Top 75 at position

65 =

Top 100 at position or 2* player unranked at his position

60 =

Top 300 player or 1* player unranked at his position

50 =

Player who has no star rating or position ranking

That much is relatively simple. Those scores are combined into two cumulative metrics: Class Average Score and Class Cumulative Score.

Class Average Score: Average normalized scores by service multiplied by the square root of the number of commitments/3.25 (13 total scholarships over 4 years) as well as our additional factor the square root of average ranking over 3.

Class Cumulative Score: Sum of all normalized score for all recruits based on all services

The system is far from perfect but we favor the current system to generate some sort of consistent, objective basis for comparing classes.